A Swiss brass chronometer carriage clock with Neuchâtel grande sonnerie, alarm and date

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A Swiss brass chronometer carriage clock with Neuchâtel grande sonnerie, alarm and date

C.F. KLENTSCHI, NO.572, RETAILED BY DU BOIS & CIE, LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS. CIRCA 1830

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A Swiss brass chronometer carriage clock with Neuchâtel grande sonnerie, alarm and date
C.F. KLENTSCHI, No.572, Retailed by Du Bois & Cie, La Chaux-de-Fonds. Circa 1830
The case with stepped top and dentil cornices, reeded fluting to the angles, on stepped base with plain bun feet, the handle with spherical supports and engine-turned collars, inscribed to the top of the case ECHAPPEMENT LIBRE A RESSORT DEUX LEVEES ET SEPT TROUS EN PIERRE and Du Bois & Cie CHAUX DE FONDS EN SUISSE, hinged door for front winding, with gilt engine-turned mask to the silver dial with engine-turned centre and Roman chapter ring, with recessed seconds dial at XII, avance/retard index above XII and concealed by the door frame, blued steel moon hands, with subsidiary dials below for alarm and date, the twin barrel movement with large gilt platform to the plain steel three arm balance with chronometer escapement, with strike work planted on the backplate, strike/repeat/alarm on two bells inverted in the Swiss fashion, signed beneath the bells C.F. KLENTSCHI FECIT NO.572, with strike/silent lever to the underside
61/3in. (16.25cm.) high

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

A carriage clock by Klentschi, number 645, of related design is discussed and illustrated in Charles Allix and Peter Bonnert Carriage Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1974, p.311, Plate X/5. The striking on the present clock also is particular to those produced in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, whereby grande sonnerie is struck at night and petite sonnerie during the day. The change over occurs automatically at eight o'clock in the morning and evening. See also Derek Roberts Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks, Schiffer, Pennsylvania 1993, Fig.15a,b.

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